The product of the Vine was the especial fruit of the god Bacchus, who is sometimes represented like an infant, holding a thyrsus and clusters of grapes with a horn.
We are told that Thyrsus grasped in his hand a pine tree which he had torn up by the roots to serve as a weapon, and that at every movement of his the ground shook under his tread, which made a noise like thunder.
As the Titanic struggle went on, Haimon merely acting on the defensive, Thyrsusbecame weary, and then Haimon gathering all his force together fell upon him and slew him.
This Haimon was a giant, taller and more powerful even than Goliath himself; and as he approached Veldidena he found barring his progress another giant named Thyrsus (now identified as Schrudan) living near Zirl.
And he never stopped dancing all the time, never relinquished the thyrsus and the ivy; always drunk (as you say) and always inspired!
In one of his own introductory lectures he compares his pieces aptly enough to the bacchante's thyrsus with its steel point concealed.
And after them came one, crowned with grape-leaves, with a thyrsus in his hand, but he had shining black curls, the silken beard and the crimson cheeks of a Jew.
Go, madman," laughs Lyaeus, "Thy thyrsus then was green.
Long faded are the garlands Of the thyrsus that I bore, When the wood-nymph chanted "Follow" In the vintage-feast of yore.
Another set Her thyrsus in the bosomed earth, and there Was red wine that the God sent up to her, A darkling fountain.
Thyrsus had heard of Haymon's prowess, and as his own had been unchallenged hitherto, he determined to provoke him to combat.
To be touched with the thyrsus of Bacchus, meant 'to be inspired with poetic frenzy.
This is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals.
The blossoming staff of Joseph appears to be but a reproduction of the budding thyrsus of the Bacchanals and of Hermes, which is regarded as a phallic symbol, typical of the reproductive forces of nature.
Whom is't that I, with pinions light, Swinging the lofty Thyrsus see?
Never a nymph excited by the mysterious Dionysius shook her thyrsus over the heads of her companions with as much energy as your genius trembles in the hearts of your brothers.
The thyrsus is the symbol of your astonishing duality, O powerful and venerated master, dear bacchanal of a mysterious and impassioned Beauty.
Another winged figure preceding the quadriga, with a thyrsus in his left hand, is in the act of seizing the bridle of one of the animals.
Of the other two, which are almost effaced, one represents an aged Faun, holding in his hands a thyrsus and a vase; the other a young woman conversing with an African slave.
On the other side is a Bacchante with a thyrsus and tambourine, and near her a little Satyr, who also holds a torch reversed.
The milk and wine which flowed out at two different times through the thyrsus and cup of Bacchus came from a double reservoir hidden under the roof of the temple, over the orifices.
Then occurs another outflow from the thyrsus and cup, and another round of the Bacchantes to the sound of drums and cymbals.
In the center of the temple Bacchus is seen standing, holding a thyrsus in his left hand and a cup in his right.
High up on the wall of their temple is a representation of the thyrsus and timbrels, which surely suits no other god than Bacchus.
Then all the sports of pleasure disappear, Then Venus, then gay youth removes: No Thyrsus then which Bacchus loves; But all is clouded and o'erspread with care.
As the root puts forth numerous branches, so the involucrum or spatha frequently incloses many blossoms that constitute the thyrsus or synthetic form of inflorescence.
The first portray the stock or trunk, the second, the thyrsus or blossom; they live mostly in dry situations, and produce resins or fetid matters.
The thyrsus has also its series of leaves; the scale-like or radical leaf is involucre and bractea; the vascular or spathe-leaf is calyx; the tracheal or reticular leaf is corolla.
The thyrsus or dense panicle is the whole ramage or branch-fabric repeated in the involucrum; it is therefore just as manifold as the former.
Their breasts to clothe In skins; the fillets from their heads to loose; With ivy wreathe their brows; and in their hands The leafy Thyrsus grasp.
Phornutus assigns as a reason for the consecration of the thyrsusto Bacchus, that inebriety often renders the support of a stick very necessary.
As Bacchus was the god of vintage, of wine and of drinkers, he is generally represented crowned with vine and ivy leaves, with a thyrsus in his hand.
A third boy, treading the grapes in a round vat, shakes the thyrsus in honor of the Wine-god, while a companion empties in fresh bunches.
Finally, that most lovely company was concluded by Joy, likewise a virgin, gracious and crowned with a garland, who in similar guise carried in the hand a thyrsus all woven of garlands and various leaves and flowers.
He thrummed his thyrsus as though he struck the strings of a lyre, and, having ended the dumb prelude, he sang: "Wherein hath the knave Caracalla outdone Alexander?
He and his followers had already stopped the poet Argeios on his way, but the thyrsus staves of the Dionysiac revelers had somewhat spoiled the game for him and his satellites.
On her breast she wore a talisman against fever, a present from her father; it was a gem representing Dionysus as a naked youth, with thyrsus and vine-branch, a rearing panther trying to lick the grapes in his hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thyrsus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
